JoshK

For some reason the other day I started playing Flight Sim 2004. I've played pretty much all versions of flight sim since back in the day but hadn't touched it in a while. I saw a scenery pack for the northwest online so I ordered it. The cascades look pretty damn amazing in it for a simple computer sim. You can actually pick out the individual mountains very distinctly as opposed to the default scenery where it's just fairly generic mountains. Anyway, I thought it was pretty neat...here are some pics: Baker & Shuksan from over concrete: The Cascade Pass / Eldorado area from over concrete:

I would find it very amusing if this started a few week period of extremely heavy snowfall and the WSDOT had to do the WA Pass opening all over again hahahaha.

I agree about the volcano faces. They are pretty ugly.

Mount Triumph's North Face biatches

How do you enchain a face??

Lexsi are about as boring of a luxury car as you can get...The are, in essence, a Japanese cadillac.

Hey, let me know where you will be in CO. I will likely be staying for a summer semester in Boulder, so I should be around for a portion of the summer. -josh

Hey Khasikmoron, have you ever thought that maybe the reason has more to do with the fact that the ANWR is our land and the deserts of the middle east are not? It's not a matter of which is worth preserving (though I think 99% of the people would choose northern Alaska over Saudi Arabian desert) but more a matter of what we can preserve.

Even though I oppose drilling in ANWR, i might at least be able to understand the opposition's support for it if there was more than a trivial amount of oil to be gained. I mean, if it provided 10 years of oil, I could see their point, but for less than a years worth of oil? How worthless...it just makes very little sense other than providing some profits for a few oil companies. Oh wait, now it does make sense...

It seems to me any terrain where a fall will be deadly should be protected by the guide. If this means slowing the party down to place pickets on steep traverses, etc, it seems to me this should be taken into account for climbing time and done, because you can't expect a client to not eat shit at a bad time.

Interestingly enough I think New Zealand is probably the most similar to Western Washington in terms of overall climate and similarity and variety of bio-zones. But, true, though I have not been, the New Zealand Alps appear to be simply breathtaking. It's also a climbers paradise...more sheep than people.

Yeah, MusicMatch sucks. Honestly, I think the "drug use" thing is about the same as any MP3 player. I own both an iPod and two non-apple MP3 players. The iPod is nothing special, IMHO. It's pretty looking and overpriced (but I still really like it) but there is nothing that makes it magic over the others. For the huge jukebox players, however, i think the only two options are the iPod or the creative zen slide. The other types of scrolling devices just don't measure up for huge collections. If I had a recommendation for a "climbing" mp3 player I would say replacable batteries is number one. A player with a "whopping" 15 hours of playtime isn't much use after 1 day in the hillz.

I think that actually sounds really cool. Japanese gardens and springs are beautiful, and it would be really neat to see a hot spring developed around here in that style. From the pics I have seen I do not find naked disgusting hippies surrounded by ghetto platforms and trash to be "natural" or "soothing." I'd take paying a few bucks to soak in the ambience of a japanese-styled spring any day, thanks.

I took lessons at wings aloft, i definitely liked them. I actually found flying a plane the first time way easier than driving a car the first time. I took off, flew the entire flight and landed the first time. I owe it all to growing up on microsoft flight simulator i suppose

Thankfully an extra 4 miles on a snow-free road on a mountain bike is no prob...

That muvo is sweet, i hadn't seen that one yet. For the same price it's about 10x more useful the suckfle, err...shuffle.

Sorry, I should have been more specific. Is it currently accessible...in other words, is the road free of snow? The end of the road is at 2000 feet so I was assuming it would be.

That trail to White pass is gorgeous. I have been that way before. Paul, any clue if that trailhead is accessible, or close to accessible?

1.) Do you think the suiattle river road is drivable to downney creek? I was imagining so due to the rather unimpressive snowpack this year. 2.) Did they ever fix the white chuck river road to get to the south side of glacier peak? If so, any clue if this is drivable?

Parts of the NCNP have been logged, if that matters, and, as ML says, pretty much parts of every other wilderness area. The wilderness act is not perfect I am sure (i know little about it) but I will always default to *more* protection as opposed to less protection. It will never be perfect but I would rather see the policy sway towards decreased access over the possibility of the logging companies getting rich of OUR land.

The 777s are definitely nice. On my way back from London a couple of years ago I got to fly on one that was 6 weeks old...very cool plane. Haven't gotten to hit the snow as much as would like The rockies aren't the cascades, but, damn, I guess I picked the right ski season to escape..

I'll add...toulene?

Wow, sweet, really cool guys. That looks awesome! Were skis even nescessary at all? Seems with that little snow the remaining crap would be consolidated enuf. yes, no?

Hehe, right on FW, couldn't have said it better myself. The new 787 is going to be sweet. As I said before, I think it fits the market better than the euro-spruce-goose does. Again, I predict the goose to be a moderate failure. It's the shorter intracontinent markets that have been seeing all the growth, as far as I've heard. With fuel costs being such a huge part of airline expendatures, I think the 787 will be a hit. Also, you'll notice that a lot of airlines are moving to the 777 for longer flights. The newest version (300ER I think?) is now the longest range commercial jet available and still carries 300+. The main benifit, of course, is 2 engines instead of 4. Also, a salute to the 777's versitility...I have two flights scheduled between seattle and devner this coming month and both are on a 777. This is traditionally a 737 or 757 route.

Dude, I'm with you. Objective danger sucks. I would rather challenge my skills, not my blind luck.